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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—eastern Tennessee. (search)
t wait for them. As soon as they had got near the limits of his lines he determined to obey Halleck's pressing injunctions. The forces of the expedition were composed of two divisions, Hascall's and White's, forming the Twenty-third corps, and of Shackelford's division of cavalry, comprising Carter's, Wolford's, and Foster's brigades — in all, some twenty thousand men. To these forces the Confederate general Buckner, who had been sent to Knoxville some months before after the death of General Donelson, could oppose about the same number of combatants. Between Knoxville and Kingston were two divisions of infantry, a part of which, it is true, was ill—armed and poorly equipped. Besides, General Frazer occupied the intrenched post of Cumberland Gap with about three thousand men and fourteen pieces of artillery, while General Samuel Jones, commanding troops of all arms, was guarding the most elevated section of the railway between Jonesborough, Tennessee and Wytheville, Virginia. In t